Why Is English Literature? - Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century

Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.

List of contents

Introduction 1. English and the Languages 2. From ars liber to Modern Literatures 3. The American Century Conclusion: Language Needs New Language

Report

"Why is English Literature? opens a fresh perspective on current discussions of globalization and transnationalism that will enliven literary studies in English and American literature departments." - John Michael, University of Rochester, USA

Product details

• Authors: T Bonfiglio, T. Bonfiglio, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137379870
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37987-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Europe, Literary theory, North America (USA and Canada), European Literature, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Literature: history and criticism, America;Ideologie;USA